[SENco-forum] 21st century skills

Not to mention when the energy starts to run out!

A totally utopian ideal, but can't we teach them the skills to work things 
out for themselves?

Tim Rupp
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From: <jeanld at fish.co.uk>
To: "Maggie Downie" <maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "Peter Syme" <106070.776 at compuserve.com>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [SENco-forum] 21st century skills

> Not to mention when the energy starts to run out!
>
> I suppose you could also say that it all depends on how you view
> education: simply to provide vocational training, or to educate the whole
> person for the whole of their life.  Do we just want to have the skills
> for the job we do, or do we want to be able to enjoy all the other things
> that make up human experience?
>
> Regards
>
> Jean
>
> S Wales
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>
>
> Who is to say that the 21st century will continue to be an era of
>> technological wizardry which will obviate the need for 'traditional'
>> skills, such as handwriting?
>>
>>   Are we aiming to produce a generation who are completely helpless in a
>> power cut (or worse)?
>>
>> Maggie
>>
>> Jamie Munro <jmunro at djsn.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I keep pointing out, this is the 21st Century - should we be teaching
>>> children the skills they need to be medieval farmers or biblical boat
>>> builders?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jamie
>>> <
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>>>
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